first off, i have cf-talk set to send "plain text only", so if any
attachments are being sent, that's news to me. granted i'll figure out why
outlook is still sending them, but no need to give a speech like i haven't
been reading this list forever and a day.
second... i can encrypt a file and have no problem opening it in
- Microsoft Word
- Netscape Navigator
- ColdFusion Studio
that's because the encryption is being handled by the OS/file system. i
assume it's decrypted before streaming to the application and then
re-encrypted with each save. So no encrypting algorithm is needed by third
party vendors if the OS is handling it, as it is.
now, the only problem i have is when i attempt to access it through a web
server. this applies to *.cfm (and as i've learned in the last hour) *.html
and *.asp. apparently the functions that decrypt the file for desktop
applications is not being run by the web server (IIS5 in my case). whether
this is a securiy feature of IIS5, a security feature for any web server
running on Win2000, or a bug i have no idea.
i posted to get answers, to see if anyone else has run into this. isn't that
the point of a discussion group, to help each other out? i'm quite
disappointed that the first replies i get are "that's microsoft's problem,
not ours" and "well, don't do that again". geez, guys... what's up with
that? i've seen too many great discussions and ideas come out of this list
than to get replies like that...
mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rey Bango [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 4:27 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: CF4.5 doesn't support Win2000 file encryption?
>
>
> Mike,
>
> I wouldn't expect it to be dealt with. That's a feature of Win2K to help
> protect your files in an internal, corporate environment. MS would have to
> allow 3rd party vendors access to their unecryption algorithms in order to
> do this. This would essentially negate any security that encryption might
> offer you.
>
> As a side note, the admins of CF-Talk list have disabled file attachment
> capabilities because of a virus scare so any messages w/ attached
> files are
> coming out screwy. Would you mind removing your
> atworklogo_very_small.gif &
> Glacier Bkgrd.jpg files from your messages.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rey...
> Certified Allaire Instructor
> Member of Team Allaire
>
> "A browser's beauty, at its heart, is its usefulness as a *TOOL*."
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Amburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Cf-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 3:46 PM
> Subject: CF4.5 doesn't support Win2000 file encryption?
>
>
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> >
> > ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01BF9995.F72A13D0
> > Content-Type: text/plain;
> > charset="iso-8859-1"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> > Windows 2000 allows you to encrypt files. ColdFusion does not seem to
> > support this, as I get the following error on any page that I encrypt:
> >
> > The template file exists, however, it either cannot be opened
> for reading,
> > or it is encrypted and its data has been corrupted
> >
> > as soon as i unencrypt, all things are good to go.
> >
> > anyone heard anything about this? is allaire going to fix this in a
> service
> > patch?
> >
> > Mike Amburn
> > Application Development
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk
To Unsubscribe visit
http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a
message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
